Resources

Lesson Plan

Educational resources

Finding resources

Wikipedia

Education portals - eg TKI - TKI is a bilingual portal and web community which provides quality-assured educational material for New Zealand teachers, school managers, and the wider education community.

Resources

Feedback

Discussion with teachers/admins about what worked, what didn't

Timing of training

Allowing plenty of time for teacher training is really important, including followup training post the initial deployment. Below is a rough guide to a training schedule that could be used or improved upon.

Initial training

Day 1

Intro to project and the XO

Need to ensure there is hands on. Turning on the laptops and a couple of wow-factor tasks (including activities such as record) with the focus on the full activities run down the next day.

Homework task - Each participant to tell something new they found on their own

Day 3

Day 4

Evaluation

Teacher support

Feedback

Day 5

Distribution of XOs to students with teachers coordinating and doing the intro/training

The parents consultation and the admin training happen simultaneously somewhere throughout the process (before the XO distribution) and they require about only a couple of hours for the parents and up to a day for the admins depending on infrastructure complexity and admin familiarity with ICT.

Followup sessions

A follow up session is suggested a few weeks after the initial training